The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-24 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. ,Win. Barker a middle-aged respectable-looking man, 1 ;.( 1 0 was i n di cted for sending a threatening letter to Mr. Jones, ple a d e d guilty. Al • Bar on G URNEY, upon the recommendat i on of taetering. prosecutor ordered him to be discharged, upon his into his own reeognizances in 5001., and two su le.t,ies of 50/ . each to keep the peace to all her Majesty's Whenn.J e c tesa, l ad to app ear b e f ore th e C our t f or j u d gmen t upon. The Learned Baron told the priso ner that he would certainly be called up for judgment if he again repeated the offence with which he was charged. ye"OesE STEALING.—Janzes Smith, a respectable-looking f ee ti j l g :flan, who was described in the Calendar as a eon rti.bio:rr,t7voas indicted for stealing, on the 19th of Sep- Mares, value 52/., the property of Edwin °ln , len and others. the ADOLPHUS stated the case for the prosecution to l .'?rY, and calk d to " 711 hem Richards, who stated that he resided at Wal- Al n ye Suffolk, an d was f ormer l y i n t h e serv i ce of Mr. o n ar tin Julien, of that place, was now with his executors. , Wh4e l. l9 th of September last bad the care of tw o mares, k eke ,ue kept in the straw-yard, the gates of which were Y ev ery night at nine o 'clock. One of the mares was fo und A fbe other bl ac k. O n t h e morn i ng o f the 20th witness t he mares gone and the gates open. Witness traced th e e -- arcs out o f the yard by their foot-marks, but losing and i f rack, a n d hearing nothing of them, he came to London , Ind v ou o n r d e_s b tr o e t e h t. th e mares at Mr. Schole's, the Elephant th:i ° r n : SMith—h a d t een th e mares, and could swear to being the property of the prosecutor. () r. Edwi n J u li en stated, that he was the son and one i ex ecutors of Mr. Martin Julien—ln consequence of he a let " ter h e receiv e d f rom M essrs . Dixon, with respect to wo _ Tar os b e came to London : he considered the mares seirft sevnty guineas, and they were the property of him .,aecl heis brother executors. pi; ranci s Lukes, was in the employment of Messrs. at- t cl i: / : - °n Friday, th e 21 s t Sept em b er , th e p r i soner that - ba r br oug h t two cart mares f or sa l e, stat i ng s o d t heY came from Mr. Fordwick, at Brompton, at th desired them to be sold to .the highest bidder,. so o b tl e s e ale s . ame time observing he probably should not attend Witness advised him to attend, when the prz pli_e_T a sked what they would fetch, to which witness ee r ( e ) - f Al'.ue,about fourteen guineas each. Incoase s q o u tn e e n cart bet S choles stating to witness that be wanted . to ses the mares were not put up to sale, but witness agreed L,Nrehase them from the prisoner for 25/. each, the pri -;er payingthe expenses. In consequence of a placard Wait respect to two mares that had been stolen witness -a n ite l upon Mr. Scholes, and when both of them felt con ,-ce", from the description, that the mares they had got -ere those adverted to, witness then wrote to Mr. Julien, 'wh o • i dentified the mares as his property. Tho mas Lather, a ‘ por ter, took a note for th e p r i soner ue 24th of S e ptember, to Messrs. Dixons ; to whi c h h e ticeived as answer f rom t h e l as t wit ness , w hi c h h e gave to "Apriso ner . itr Sch o l es , the proprietor of the Eleph an t I nn, Fore eie,et, received two mares from Messr s . Di xon, w hi c h were 4 tued by Mr. Julien. 211 e prisoner declined cross-examining any of the wit. ' l es, or saying any thing in his defence. Mr. Bar on G URNEY summe d up, and , 1 e Jury f oun d t h e pr i soner Gu i lty. th e prisoner was again indicted with stealing a gelding, e l e _P e roperty of the Rev. Thomas Canning. The case was 4,,1Y made out, and e Jury convicted the prisoner. goz i;• Baron GURNEY said that the cases against the pri eitperiw" ere the worst h e h a d ever k nown i n t h e w h o l e o f hi s th e i_ ,and he must expect the severest punishment c'w Would allow. NEW COURT. Se °rl ePool was i n di cte d f or embezziing and stealing, th e ° Member l ast , t h e sum o f 31. I s ., and o f s s . 4 d., 1.• P r °Pertv f Willi am . 0 l am Goodwin , to whom he was a Prisoner Thy • havin g pleaded Guilty to the charges, Peas e " prosecutor was called, when he stated that_ h r e su h m ad s V i hi ck n,to believ e that the prisoner had secreted other he COURT had received on his account. ho us C °uRT sentenced the prisoner to hard labour in the JCl:, °f „Correction for six calendar months. —eB Ste en (a Young prig) was indicted for stealing a i s oclkerchiei from the pocket of a person whose name nek eo _ TLe wn, b°Thr prisoner , being a known hand, was sentenced th et, n ally to ten years' transportation ; but it was ordered ti cal 41,, the completion of the establishment for the recep lent te li iat nile thiev es i n th e I s le of Wight, he should be J ohn dep ot. of eteaii = ason was convicted, upon conclusive evidence, °t a Pair of boots a nd a l oo ki ng - g l ass , th e p ro pe r ty A Gqdwin. Col of aud a city a tt en d e d t hi s ro bb ery , upon '' Court remarked when it p asse d sen t ence o f s ;x IS' hard labour. The prisoner was told that if ever he a Pceared again he would be sent out of the country. BOW-STREET. -(THIS DAY.) 10' Young man, named James H ug h es , was c h arge d w i t h -"e following unprovoked assault upon his employer ; kr. G eorge Ch ar l es R am , 17, Clement's-lane, builder, .i: i tt t r ed that th e d e f en d a nt had been in his employ fo r a b out . months and yesterday, at three o'clock, he came to 2 late" I a state of intoxication, but, in consequence of hi s irrn e gu al. r habits, he was desired to gather up his tools, get work elsewhere. H e then became very, violent hi w ! seeing no person in the workshop but the corn- V ina tn, he seized the carpenter's plane produced, and "Ilei c him violent blow hir e t a th e 0 , the ground. As soon as he recovered himself from e 4 u ,"nts of the blow he sent for constable 34 F, and had Th e to the station.house t defendant -accounted ' for his violence . by saying, Der see ing the plane on the bench he claimed it as his t prclie toZi Which being refused by the complainant, asru m g u g st have tlac e to obtain' possession of it, and the 13. him ~ een inflie:ed accidentally, but he never wound a blow "deavours to pull away what he knew belonged to M r. T w vPortD, with the consent of Mr. Thistleton, a ,'`lligistrate, ordered him to pay a fine of M., and in ue was sent to hard labour for two months. „ 411.11. LE80NE.-(THIS DAY.) ...,,,,, ~, .....____.- Aire '-stvE R OBBERY.—hour women, named Berl eliargec7l66, 'liken, and Richards, were placed d at the bar, iltis°llr with the following .robbery committe , on the :::::: ed 4 l 4_ :ti lli k :s mistress, a lady named Parke-, residing 'Air. l'-: ""d4lnd-street. Finden was tbe first witness called . ; d. he i ,n Pit zr - ''ill)self t o I.); an architect and surveyor, rest Ing e rt 'lrs. paquare. Yesterday morning, having called i o rl'ed i t. ”' on business she told him she had been p un ; e 4ci da3°; bflantkiotlrrhien.se quantity ' ht of plate ; and within . these e number of Spanish bonds 15 1: ° 8 e4 d e l ? 4, 7e b d e i e _ 11 ,ab s s e tra k cT e d d f r t e m a her drawers. The witness then ii: ‘, isti n , t ',lli .evidence, which was nothing more than a ° Me - "tail of the facts described in the oldence of Ors, er Mitchell, t° e,kilarkes entered the witness-box next, but evidently , er to be nervous, that Mr. RAwLINSON kindly ordered She at t° e accoMmodated with a seat near the bench. ot , e , 4 4( i 4 , e prisoner bad th 4 th4t the al lived i e n ee h fi e d r e s e e c r e vi i c e e h fo e r r. a long e 4 r ( L i " ways reposed much 134 rt of Y , when examining her Plate, she found the greater 4 :2 l lnt. it 'Lid heel! taken ; also Spanish bonds to a large Vied t h e '? Peaking to the pris . oner, she said if she re at I , e , !atter, she would forgise her the plate robbery ; 1 kitm,",rned all knowledge of either. . l l itlg - r u e e _ ll '.an officer belonging to this district, said that 1 "ke 'l"4ed information of the robbery, he went to Mrs. i t atd 4 A uk°use, w hen,questioning the prisoner Aiken, he '4 l ch - "°ek at th t ., ard s, ~_,l ladoor, . hall and on opening it, saw sto„ tvl 0 when for the former , he took . her into a tes, Ynd when he searched her, found fifty-nine dupflir 814rti te ,flY Of articles of plates, most of them pledged . o r ler vi ,.: l :„Ying from 2s. to 1/. ss. ; and in a very short time another knock came to the door, and the pri the llt , Bey another and Gibbs being there, he also arrested l'allocs,cll berkshire he found three duplicates, one of a tt o i el ;:e silver paint box which was among the article ev er ,. and tlie other of tv;o table spoons. Notwithstanchng henkortlYiexertio be could make yesterday evening and this . iati v t, could acquire no satisfactory information f re t her e • -u the bonds ;he therefore requested that the fur- aturidn'estigation of the case might be postponed until fl eet e d% n ext, when he hoped to have further facts con iNir.. Ir_itli this extensive robbery. . 4le,h ttAviLiNsoN, after questioning the prisoners as to h7 r ,', theY wished to make any defence, acceded to 4 8 . e. 'n's request, they having no satisfactory defence to _ • b0 v .... ....--___....----. Nnrd Lll . --I see by a paragraph in your Paper of l 'eal;C a Y s ome anxiety has been excited as to the . ei , 10): vrolfiLl: Lord rd Brougham. You may allay such fears. P: 14 4 ° , l) !e Lord In - ay be seen daily on the Marine je4Pond n e ln excellent health and spirits . — From a I est i t. s„ 4 . , er n i a -- „ y afternoon, between one and two o'clock, I''itulj„();ll,Yman painter, who was engaged cleaning the front Itt i d• 'of the house N o 42. Great Marlborough-street, w h a : - inc. vc a , bon th e top of the balcony, his foot sli'A.ed, and 134. tuNlireeipitated upon the iron spikes of the railing of . t _ esi lve ? t ie of Which entered his head. He was immediately )ecl to the Middlesex Hospital. COURT -CIRCULAR.. WINDSOR, MONDAY. —Her Majesty, the Duchess of Kent, Lady C. Copley, Lady M. Stvford, Baroness Lebzen, Earl Spencer, the Earl of Uxbridge, iri,count Falklrud, Lord Co nynglyam, Sir Robert Ottvay, and the Hen. Colonel Caven dish, rode out on horseback in the Park. Lady• Littleton, the Ladies E. and C. Paget, and the Hon. Miss Lister took an airing in an open carriage. Lord Surrey and Sir H. Wheatley are expected this even ing on a visit. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by C4ptain Stephens, came town resterday, and visited the Duchess of Gloucester. His Royal Highness returned to his residence at Kew in the afternoon. Lord Howard de Walden transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Hart Davis had an interview with the Chancellor of the Excheq•ier yesterday in Downing-street. Don Vicente Pazos, Consul. General of the Peru- Bolivian Confederation, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Foreign Office, for Sir E. C. Disbrowe, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague. SPORTING IN TLLLIGEJCE NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1838. In addition to the Stakes, &c,, which appeared in our paper a few days since, the following matches have been made : MONDAY. Match, 50. T.Y.C.—Mr, Pettit's Sir Francis, 3 yrs, 9st., agst General Yates's Siroc, 2 yrs, 6st. 71b. FRIDAY'. Match, 200, h. ft. Last mile of Ab. M.—Lord Suffield's Arse nic, 5 yrs, Bst. 71b., apt Lord Stradbroke's The Fifer, 4 yrs, 7st. 31b. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1840. FRIDAY. Match, 200, h. ft. R.M.—Lord Lichfield's Firefly, Sister to Phosphorus, asst Duke of Portland's f. by Plenipotentiary, out of Thebes ; Bst. 71b. each. PEDES7'RIAIVISM MATCH EXTRAORDINARY —Harris, the pedestrian, who walked 1,500 miles in 1,000 hours at Finchley, in August last, has now undertaken to walk 1,750 miles in one thousand successive hours, for two hundred sovereigns, being one mile and three quarters in each hour—a feat hitherto unaccom plished. He commenced his task in the Battersea-fields at eight o'clock on Monday morning, starting from the Duchess of York to the measured distances and back again. At ciAt o'clock last night he was as fresh as when he began his arduous labour, and entertains no doubt of final success, though odds are considerably against him. He performs three miles and a half at a time, and begins his several journeys about 38 mi nutes past the hour, which leaves him 22 minutes for the per formance of his mile and three quarters, which he has hitherto completed in about two minutes under the time. Having waited the strikinr of the hour, he then immediately starts upon his second hour's task, which, having performed in like manner, he retires for refreshment arid rest; by this arrange ment he secures to himself repose for about one hour and a quarter in every two hours. Great numbers flocked from town yesterday to witness this performance. Immense bets are said to depend upon the result. The Duke and Duchess of I3eaufort, accompanied by the Marquis of Worcester and Lady Augusta Somerset, were to leave Venice on Saturd,y for this country. Badminton will be full of company during December and the succeeding month. The Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Char lotte Hill have returnerl to town f orn a visit to the Countess of Plymouth, at Knoale Park, hear Sevenoaks. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster in tend qu'aing ILlkyn House. in Fiintshire, for Eaton Hall, in Cheshire, on Monday or Tuesday next. Earl Amherst and Lady Sarah Amherst returned to Montreal Hall on Siturday, from a visit to the Cuuntess of Plymouth, at Knowle Park, Sevenoaks. The Earl of Mayo is passing the season at Pal merston House, near Naas, in the county of Kildare. The Earl of Haddington is entertaining a party at Tyningham House, in Hadaingtonshim The Earl of Sandwich and Mr. Bingham Baring arrived in town, from Hinchinbroke, on Saturday last. The Earl of Balcarras is passing the season at Haig Hall, in Lancashire. _ _ . The Earl and Countess of Brownlow are expected to arrive at Nice early in the next ensuing m.mtb. The Noble Lord has taken a mansion there for six months. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough left Cla rendon Park on Montlay lest, after passing several days with Sir Frederick and Lady Bathurst, for Frampton House, Dor set, on a visit to Mr. R. Brinsley Sheridan. Sir Frederick Stovin arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. Admiral Sir Harry Buzzvd and Lady Neale are entertaining a select party of fashionables at their romantic scat, Walhampton, in the New Forest, to which her Ladyship recently returned from a Continental tour. Mr. Lyne Stephens intends, in about a fortnight, to remove the whole of his splendid establishment to Paris for the winter. Mr. CodrinGton, the Duke of Beaufort's son-in-law, [eft town yesterday to join the hounds at Badminton. _ _ Baton Stockmar is gone on a visit to his relatives in Germany. Lord Alford, Hon. Wm. Bagot, and other young noblemen and gentlemen, left Vienna early in the month, for Prince Esterhazy's chateau, by special invitation. Lord Melgund, M,P., is on a visit to the Earl Fitz william, at Wentworth House, Yorkshire, Lord Vernon has taken a mansion on the Marine Parade, Brighton, for the winter season. His Lordship has also taken the residence of the late Mrs. Fitzherbert, in Park lane, for a term of years. Lord Rokeby went to the Continent in ill health, in consequence of a fall from his horse, at Melton Mowbray, in the spring of this year, when the right leg was broken. We hear that his Lordship is in Italy, and are! sorry to add that the accounts of the state of his health are unfavourable. Earl Cadogan has joined his Countess and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan at Venice, from the south of France After staying in Paris during the Carnival the family purpose returning to town: Lord and Lady Mahon are expected to remain a month or six weeks at Walmer Castle. Lord and Lady Stanhope and the Lady Wilhelmina will be unavoidably absent from the christening of the 1 , J..b1e Lord's son and heir, being at present in Italy. The Marquis de Noailles has just died at Paris. LADY JOHN RUSSELL—Her Ladyship's accouch nient took place on Friday last, at the marine villa of Lord J:ihn, iu Sussex-square, Kemp Town, and with her infant daughter is doing well. Her Ladyship has now six children, four by her first husband, and two by her second marriage. Miss Lister, at present in waiting at Windsor Castle on her Majesty, is expected to arrive on a visit to Lady John Russell at the expiration of her month of attendance. Lord John Rus sell is exp-cted in Wilton-crescent to-day, from Brighton, to meet Earl Spencer and the Premier. Lady Theodosia Spring Rice has rallied since her arrival in town;and by the advice of her medical attendants, Dr. Chambers and Mr. Pennington, will leave the Chancel lor of the Exchequer's r,s;dence in Downing street next week for St. Leontlard's-on- S-a or Hastings, for the benefit of the sea air. Miss Spring Rice, Maid of Honour to the Queen , is on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, at Wheetwood Hall, near Leeds. COWES, OCT. 22.—The Earl of Yarborough's yacht, the Kestrel, hait-en la , cl up in the Medina for t he winter; and the Menai, Albatross, Pearl, Marquis of Anglesea, and other yachts, are dismasting. The Noble • Commodore has left for town, on his way to: Broeklesby Hall. Lord Seaham, son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Li.ndon ,, erry, is still sojourning► here. His Lordship, and the Hon.• Mr. and Mrs. Worsley Holmes, Mr. Mackinnon, M. P., and other fa shionables, attended the annual ball at Yarmouth on Friday last. KNOWLE PARK.—This beautiful residence has been the scene of more gaiety this month than for some years past. Among the nobility who have been visiting the Coun tess of Plymouth are the Marchioness of Dowoshire, Earl aqd Countess Delawarr and Lady Elizabeth West, Earl Am. herst, Lady Sarah Amherst ; Lady Charlotte Hill, &c. MINrO CASTLE NEAR IlAwicK.—The Earl of ....... Minto will leave for the Admiralty on Monday next, having received despatches from town, requiring his attendance. The Countess and the younger branches of the family will remain until the middle of November. Among the recent visitors of the Earl and Countess have been Lord and Lady Aber eromby, the Speaker, Mr. and Lady Mary Abereromby, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. John Elliott, Mr. Charles and Lady Mary Wood, &c. The Birmingham Railway Company are now trying to break faith with the inhabitants of several of the places ' where, stations were promised to be made; and even are en deavouring, if they can with impunity, to abolish the Wolver ton station This is rather too bad, after having driven the coaches off the road.—Northampton Herald. His Highness the Grand Duke of Lucca was in vited yesterday afternoon by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who was attended by Capt. Stephens, Equerry to his Royal Highness. His Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury, Count St. Martin D'Aglie, Count Frederick . de Thun Hohenstein, Baron Cape! , &c. , were among , the distinguished visitors at Mivart's Hotel yesterday to his Highness. The Marquis Conyngham, Lord Chamb erlain, visited hsldliivgishiinsets:, on Saturday afternoon. Yesterday h i s Highness pia several Members of the Royal Family and the formn diplo matists. On Monday evening his Highness dined with their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Capua. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Carttar held an inquest at the Blue Anchor, St. Paul's Cray, Kent, on the body of J ohn Deevea, aged 67, a l a bo ur e r in the employment of Lord Wyn rm:d. The deceased was found dead in a ditch on his Lord ship's land, on Sunday morning. It appeared in evidence, that :he deceased was a man of exemplary regularity of conduct, :) ! It that he had been some time in delicate health He received or wages on Saturday , arid after his family had remained the whole of the night in a mate of the most distressing sus pense, the man was found next morning - dead, and the money in his pocket. Verdict—Died from natural causes. CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH TEE ANSWERS. (Continued from The Sun of Monday.) 154.—N0t only would four-fifrhs, at least, of the land now in cultivation cease to yield a rent, but one half of the land now cultivated would cease to be tilled at all. Let us see how this would operate. In estimating the traffic between the men of the country and the men of the town, it is necessary, if we would get at the .truth, to put out of sight the distinctions of labourers, farmers, and landlords. We can dispense with rents, we can dispense with wages, with profits, in those shapes and under those names ; but we cannot dispense with production. For every bushel of wheat that the soil of Eng land produces less, a purchaser to the amount of a bushel of wheat is taken from the English manufacturer. Reduce the tillage of England by one-half, and you reduce the home trade of Eng►and one half. If the agriculturist have not to sell, he cannot buy.—Birmingham Jinirnal. Oct. 20, 1838. ANSWER.—The statement of consequences is enor mously ex Iggei ated. But let that pass. For argument's sake let. it be admitted, that no objection shall ba made to that. " For every bushel of wheat at famine price that the soil of England produces less, a purchaser to the amount of a bushel of wheat at famine price is taken from the Eng lish manufacturer." The words in Italics are what wanted adding. If Birmingham were surrounded with a wall of brass, for the sake. of confining the people to such corn as should be grown in flower-pots on the tops of houses, and cetting more hours' work for a peck of wheat in conse quence, the men of Birmingham might equally be told, that for every peck'of wheat less that was produced in flower-pots, a purchaser to the amount of a peck of wheat was talc, n from the Birmingham manufacturer. But surely the men of buttons would never stand this. They would cry, "To the d-1 with such purchasers, end let u 4 open our gates to 1 ' out-doors corn." 155:—We shall not complicate this view by an atterml to calculate the consequence of the overflow of superfluous agricul tural labourers upon the town population. That manufactur ing wages::must fall from that cause also, is too plain to re quire proof.— ld. A.—lt would be very hard to persuade the men of but tons to cry out for keeping fast their gates, lest the waterers of flower-pots should conic and increase the labourers in the button trade. They would see that an effect of this ould take place to a certain extent, but for evrry flolA er pot waterer added to the button-makers, a demand fUr fifty button-makers would be created by opening Birmingham to supply buttons for the world. 156.—We rat the case simply on the fact—that the quan tity of agricultural produce being immensely diminished, the demand for manufactured goods, against which that produce is now exchanged, must experience a corresponding diminution. —ld.. A.—The quantity of corn grown in flower-pots being immensely diminished by opening the gates, the demand for buttons for the breeches of the flower-pot growers roust ex perience a corresponding diminution, The mistake is in thinking that the button-maker wants only to exchange his buttons, and does not care for what. That he is just as ready to exchange a gross for a peck of wheat under the system of shutting up the gates, as for a bushel under an open trade.. 157,--But, the diminution will be made good out of the increase of our foreign trade, it is answered. Let us see. Observe, we speak not of ultimate, but of immediate issues. It is a constant defect in the reasonings of economists, other wise so round and unassailable, that the element of time is never remembered in them.—ld. _ A.—lt is always easy to have a gird at the political economists. " Let us see," then, what comes of it in the present instance. 158.—We are told that the ports being open, the inhabi tants of Poland will exchange their wheat against our cottons. Two, ~ hree, five, ten years - hence they may; but what will haupen this year, and the next? The Polish farmer, and the Polish lord have already all that their manner of life, and the desires and wishes which years have confirmed into habit, in cite them to seek after. —ld. A.—The Poles have no more got- used to do 7 ng without Erglish manufactures if they could get them, than our starving manufacturers have to doing without Polish corn. One set may be starved in back and the other in belly ; but depend on it, neither side have got used to it, if they knew how to help themselves. 159.—We must eradicate old habits, we must implant new desirYs and wishes, before we can hope materially to extend our commerce in Poland or elsewhere.—ld. A.—Allow a Hull captain to take out a cargo of Birming ham goods, and freely sell the corn be buys with the roubles the goods will fetch ; and see whether he will be stopped or stayed by this philosophy. 160. —And, in the mean time, we must purchase wheat with gold—because there is no other commodity for which the owners will, in the mean time, exchange it. Here comes in another element that the economists, in their calculations, do not seem evon to dream of. A single had harvest, will, in three months, drain the Bank of England of its last sovereign. IVhat comes thtn ?—/d. _ _ A.—You are to be prevented buying corn, then, lest you should buy corn with gold. Tuis is the paternal caution that is felt for you. But why are - you not prevented from buying hemp, lest you should buy hemp with gold ? And if you do buy hemp with gold, what is the consequence, but to make a new trade in gol I ; and " what comes then?" If gold pieces go out, the value of those that remain at must rise, and this must cause a trade to bring in ma. terials for more from the places where gold grows. Th e trade with gold abroad, can go on no longer than the gold is worth more to us abroad than it is at home. The whole, therefore, resolves itself into a currency fallacy ; for which the people of Birmingham will be as famous, as ever they were in their time for bad half-pence. I6l.—Why, the inevitable consequence, as soon as the drain sets fairly in, would be a restriction of discounts ; as it prweeded, their entire refusal; . what comes after that, we ha ve more than once experienced, by approximation—the extinction of all trust and credit in the kingdom, and a national bank ruptcy.— ld. A.—lt has been shown, that where there is a drain out, there is a drain in ; and fa•ter than there was a drain in, beyond a given limit, the gold would not go out. The people of Birmingham might as well be advised to stop their trade in everything else, and live on their buttons. The hypo chondriac who was afraid to leave his chair, because he should leave his bowels sticking to the place, was only a type of the caution proposed to them. 162.—We do not, in setting these things bt , fore the public, seek to repress or discourage discussion of the Corn-lavvi ; we do not seek to oppose their repeal. We merely wish to show, wilat would be thy inevitable result of their repeal, if unac companied by other measures.—ld. A.—That is to say, you wish to puzzle the question with the currency fallacy, and so frighten people into postpone ment. Nothing further. 163.—We should not have dwelt upon the difficulties of this question, which so many men, so many women, and so many children, have, for the last five months, been canvassing, with quite as much confidence as knowledge, did we not be lieve and trust, that there is a safe road out of them. Whether the people and the economists will take that road, or, rather, allow the monetarians to take it for them, we cannot say—we hope they will.—ld. A.—the Lord preserve us from the money-doctors! The Horse-Guards Blue know a great deal more about the matter. There would be no persuading the private gentlemen of that distinguished corps, that they were deeply concerned in having twice as many pieces of money for their daily pay, each p4;ce to buy half as much: as now ;. or that other people wera to be much interested in it either. • . • 164.—F0r the present, we think, we base said sufficient, were there no other grounds on which to rest our argument, to shoo; that they who counsel the postponement of every other question in order to agitate the repeAl of the Corn know exceedingly little of the consequences which they are so earnestly labouring to bring about. —ld. A.—Perhaps rather lamely proved. Nobody .wants to postpone anything ; nothing that is good is in any. such hurry to come. But do not let us be persuaded to go on with Birmingham shut up and kept on flower-pots, for fe f ar the sky should fall upon our heads on altering. And i there is all the peril now, when is it to be less ? Arc We waiting for a deluge of paper money, to be issued by private banktrs who.put the amount into their pocket ? (To BE CONTINUED.) THE R OBBE RY AT ROTIISCIIILD S. ve have h ltothsebi Id• already mentioned the apprehension, officer We understand he was ctuted b Goddard, an active on J. Greene, charged with the robbery f embarking of Bow.street police establishment in the act o o f the part board a vessel for New York, and the greater ; im. f the day midiately cons eyed to London. 01 the evening 0 money embfzzled was found in his possession, and by 0 . 111 ab on which the misguided youth (who is only ninetee a,t)fPmismesosrust.l of Samui seonded, he was. in the company of two companions,Bay men of respectability, to whom he exhibited a roll of England notes, remarking at the time that he could boast ". m having more money than either of his friends could produce , but they, knowing that he held a responsible situation. thoughtas nothing more than usual of the circumstance, particularly. d they had observed, on previous occasions, th4t he came great deal of money about him. On the same evening be in Bank young formedy the landlady of the house in which he and his mother. resided, that he had left a note in the room, addressed to his parent, she being absent from home at the time. He then quitted the hous e , an d never returned. The o ffi cer : shortly - after made their appearan,p, and the contents of the letter, whichcl da n imtow o t s ah e se d bank n rf found ds shall l containlen to ev theerthe n ,eea you ololurwt again gn o ga f net :: n O m l. , uc beingatne x : — a - I am go America. Your affecti onate son, S. Greenc."The:e t salary he received from the Messrs. Rothschild was veer y liberal, a"" -ncli would hive seppo r t e d him in a reqr•ct,ible and bee"' nig manlier; and there se: s, moreover, a prospect held out to him of future advancement; but lately he had become Of very dissipated and extravaga4t habit's. MESNE PROCESS. TO THE EDITOR OF TFIE SUN. Sin,—ln reference to the article in this evening's Sun, stating that as regards the acceptances of small traders. who accept for sums varying from 301. to 230/., the honour of an acceptance will be the exception, and not. the rule. Allow me to say that I suspect your correspondent to be one of those men who prey upon the necessities of small tradesmen. From 50 to 200 per cent, per annum is the rate which these worthies bare charged thoughtless, inex perienced, or simple men, relying on the power of arrest to make their victims, or the relations of victims, pay the amount of the bill. 1 know an instance in which one of these discounters discounted and renewed a bill for 301. six times over, each time at two months, receiving each time 10/. discount, and at last swearing that the par: ies, the drawer, the acceptor, and tin indoser, were justly and truly indebted to him, sent all three to a prison ; it was then that the friends of two of these unfortunate men camp forward and released them, and thus for an original loan of 201. the discounter, within thirteen months, received 1301 4 and. sent three men to prison, perhaps sharing with hi; attorney in the costs. From what I have heard, such things have not been uncommon, and if the abolishing of arrest on mesne process will tend to make these usurers more chary of their discounts, it will be conferring a benefit on society. It is evident that a man who borrows money at such exorbitant rates must be ruined, and ought not to be trusted. The result of such conduct in a small trades man is, that the usurer eats up his property, and his trade creditors, who only charge him fair profits, lose their entire deb's. C. D. Queen-street, Oct. 23. TEMPERANCE SOuIET Y.-THE WINE TRADE. The festival of the North London Aux;liary of the New British and Foreign Temperance Society took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, when a lecture upon ancient and modern wines was delivered by the Rev. F. Beardsall, of Manchester. The large room of the tavern was crowded in every part, and at half-past six the chair was taken by S. M. Gilbert, Esq. After a statement of the progress of the Society lad been made by the Secretary, Mr. Green, and a brief ad dress from the Rev. Dr. Tracy of Chelsea, The REV. LECTURER, who was provided with an inA-e -nious chemical apparatus, presented himself to the meeting and was loudly cheered. He commenced by stating the diffidence he felt in taking so prominent a part on so im portant and interesting an occasion ; but he was deeply im pressed with the truth of the results at which he had ar rived, and he felt that the subject was one intimately con• netted with the moral and physical welfare of the British people. He disavowed any intention to assail private cha racter—his object was to expose the system adopted in the manufacture of wines in this country, and to point out their injurious influence upon the habits and morals of the people at large. The Rev. Gentlemen then proceeded to cite authorities for the purpose of showin g that the term " wine" was ap plicable to the unfermented and unintoxicating juice of the grape, as. well as to the fermented and intoxicating liquor to which the term " wine" was ordinarily applied. Among the authorities on this point wtre Rees' Encyclopaedia, Brown, Dr. Adam Clarke's Commentaries, Saunders, &c. He maintained that the unfermented juice of the grape, to which the Society did not object, was the legitimate wine authorised by the Scriptures, and that it might be pre sA-ved in that state for any length of time. He then pointed out the various words in the original Hebrew to which the term wine had been applied, and argued from the root or derivation of these several terms that where wine was spoken of in the Scriptures in terms of approbation, reference was made to the unfermented juice of thegrape, and where its use was condemned and reprobated, the fermented and in toxicating juice was alluded to. An anecdote was then related of a certain King of Persia, who put by grape juice in bottles till it fermented, and on ascertaining the change that had taken place, and being ignorant of its new powers, had the bottles labelled " poison," arid put away. One of the ladies of the Court who was labouring under severe indis position, resolved to put an end to her exigence, and drank some of the fermented juice—it composed her to sleep, and she awoke free from pain. The use of fermented wine in Persia had its origin in this circumstance, and the people of that country called it " delightful poison." Some grapes were then produced, and the expressed juice subjected to the process of distillation, for the purpose of showing that it contained no alcohol or spirit. Port and sherry wines, sent to the lecturer for the purpose of being tested, were shown to contain a large quantity of alcohol. Some ancient wine preserved in an unfermented state, and said to be more than two hundred years old, was then exhibited, and was tasted by many persons present. The Lecturer then referred to modern willies, and declared it to be his decided conviction, frim having maturely investigated the question, that four-fifths of the wine told in Great Britain was ficti tious, and manufactured without the juice of the grape. According to the entries in the Custom-house books, the quantity of wine shipped from Oporto to Guernsey, in 1812, was 135 pipes and 20 hogsheads=, and in the same year there was landed in the London Docks alone, from Guernsey, professing to be port wine, 2,54.5 pipes and 162 h o c. s h ea ds.—(Great laughter.) In 1826 the number of pipes of wine exported from Oporto to the Channel Islands wits 38, and the number sent from thence to London was 293.—(A laugh.) In 1827t1i e number was London. In 99, and the same n umber of pipes were s hi pped thence to had manufactured 1823 the number was 0 e wlch they none from Oporto, and shipped to into 75. In 1829 0 n 9 0I they receivedn 1830 they received none, and shipped for London 247. And in 1833 th ey received none, and shipped to London 862 p i pe s.— ( Great lau g hter. ) Out of 38,479 plpes o3f6wine shipped from Oporto in 1835, not less than pipes were imported into London. The Rev. sGentleman then read a receipt for the manu facture of por t . wine, which comprised red beet-root, brandy, sugar, logwood , rhA tan y root, & e . , a n d related an anecdote of a car pet-manufacturer who, on hearing the Oh, now understand why, when list read, exclaimed—_" O. the d ks to purchase logwood, I have al ways have gone to found one of the principal , , wine-merchants there pick ingways —(Great laughter and cheer out the choice pieces. for manufacturing champagne, madeira cheer ing,) Receipts &c., were then read to the meeting, none of them contain ingA statement wh's,...h had appeared in any grape Ju ice. one of the L o ndon pipers a short time since was then re ferred to, relative to the e e wine wines manufacturing e were rr e esta blishments Marseilles. shipped to Madeira, a nd after being branded, were dispersed all Alaryira wine, being minus merely ped ali over the w orld the juice of t he 'rape. Ihe Lecturer then read a li st o f the ingredients;seddin the manufacture of fictitious wines, ) sum, blood, lime, beet -root, bay salt, included bran lead, whortle-berrit: e u e sseet - - salt, oyster-shells, briar, cherry-laurel,g.g.wisiter, Carnpecby-wood, red sa ' nders- Brazil-wood, molasses, chips, saw-dust, laughter. wood, arsenic , damsons, hickory-nuts, &c., &c. The tany-root, of this catalogue . excited great reading The Lecturer then proceeded to state some in stances of persons w ho had lost their lives from drinking wine adulte rated with lea d and other deleterious ingredients. Th e authority of several eminent medical men was cited to show t h e i nj urious conseque nces . resulting from th e use o f wines, an d a list of the diseases ie blotched and bl oated originatingcoun tenance in the u se o f w i ne was read. Pictures exhibiting tl of a drunkard, and the effects produced on the brain by apoplexy, were exhibited ; and after some further observations the Lecturer concluded by expressing his readi ness to answer any questions that might be put to him. Mr. WALKER, a BritiSh Champagne wine manufacturer, then addressed the meeting, and denied, in the most positive terms, the statements of the Lecturer, so far as regarded British Champagne. After some interruption he called upon Mr. Ihardsall for his authority. Mr. BEARDSALL said he had taken his statements from Addison's " 'Fader," 131, and referred Mr. Walker to " Aceum's Culinary Poisons," where the same statements were repeated. Mr. WALKER observed that these referred to Foreign and nbt British wines. He himself had tried water, and after six weeks was obliged to give it up, as he found it was hurrying him fast to the grave.—(Great laughter.) Mr. BEAttusALL pointed to the great number of ath letic and hard-working men in the room, who had, some of them, for years abstained from all intoxicating drink. — (Loud cheering.) Some questions were afterwards put by a medical gentle man, named Power, and a vote of thanks to time Chairman laving been moved by Dr. Oxley, the meeting broke up. Saturday a ----- dreadful accident occurred to the light Salisbury coach, which leaves Salisbury at ten o'clock, to join the Southampton Railway at the station,'clock train to Lond on ; Wingfield :and Hartley row so as to go by the three o on passing down Hushaud-hill, between Basingstoke and Andover, the bit of one of the horses caught in the hook of the pole, and before the coachman could pull up to put on the break to the wheels, the coach overturned, by which the coachman broke his right arm, and dislocated his shoulder. One Passenger, a mechanic, on whose industry his aged father alone depended, was so much hurt that be died the same afternoon ; a gentleman also, injured about the head, was taken to his residence at Andover without the slightest hope of recovery ; a young woman bad her leg broken, and great doubts are entertained as to her ultimate fate; two other passengers had limbs broken, and the rest (except the Rev. Mr. Fowl, of Winchfield) were all more or less bru ised. Both the leaders were killed on the spot. The Bang- Up coach from Wo rces t er to Wolverhampton was upset on Sunday morning -at the Cross, Worcester, immediately after starting from the Unicorn Inn, in consegwrice of the stepping asunder of the hi n d ax l e . Th ere were se veral outside passengers, two or three .of whom received severe contusions, but none, it is hoped, of a dangerous nature, the whole being able to proceed on their journey as soon as a fresh coach was procnrcds PERUVIAN BONUS. (Prom the hneS.) From the annexed documents it would appear that tifi attempt is about to be made by the new Government of Peru to redeem their lost credit in Europe, by oti,ginating some measures for the relief of the English bondholders under the leans raised here in 1824. Their case is as strong, or perhaps stronger, than that of any other suf ferers in the same way, since those loans which were brought forward in the very height of the prosperity-fever of that time fetched the highest prices of any of those ne gotiated for the Transatlantic States. The shares in the second loan were sold at a sort of auction or public bid ding in the Royal Exchange, and the scene which then took place, through the eagerness of the numerous cern vtitors for it, was probably without any parallel since the days of the South Sea bubble, the descriptions of which figure in the accounts of that period. The current price obtained was about 90 per cent.; the same stock has sub sequently been ,as low a 3 9, or it may rather be said has become utterly unsaleable ; the dividends upon it are unpaid since 182.5. There have rarely occurred any quotations of it lately in the official list, and there appears to have been no speculation excited b! , the arrival of these documents, which announce officially-what the in tentions of the Peruvian Government are in this matter, which is to be taken as a sign that the public mind is very much sobered down from that state of excitement which such announcements as these used formerly to bring on. The following are the docutneti's above referred to FROM THE CONSUL-GENERAL OF PERU, TO THE COMMITTEE OF SPANISH AMERICAN LONDHOLDERS. " NichoL's Hotel, Wcz,trninster-britiv, October 19, 1838. " Sir,—The undersigned, Consul-General of the Peru- Bolivian Confederation, has received orders to communi cate to the bondholders of the Peruvian h-an, that Gene ral Santa Cruz, from the moment of his installation in the command of that State, directed all his attention to the Lyment of the English debt, and, as will bc seen by the circular which - his secretary addressed to the fo rtign diplomatic body on the 17th of August, 1835, bound himself in the most solemn manner to liquidate it, and had commenced the adoption of the most cner getiz._means fbr the reduction of all the charges upon the Treasury, in order that there might remain a sur plus, with which he should be able to fulfil that obligation. Initnediately niter these first steps were taken, the unjust war which the Government of Chili declared zgainst the Confederation intervened, and from that time the necessity of self-defence has absorbed all the attention of the Gm ern ment, and all the resources of its Treasury. Gen. S ,nta Cruz made every effort compatible with honour for putting an eud to these hostilities. He offered to give satisfaction to Chili, in the event of bringing forward real grievances, and the Government of Chili refused it. He solicited and obtained the mediation of Great Britain, and the Govern ment of Chili refused it also. Finally, the conduct of Ge• neral Santa Cruz, in making the peace of Paucarpata, is universally known, when, having forces double the number of his enemy, he generously conceded to him an honour able peace. " As a proof of the sincere desire which animates Gen. Santa Cruz for the payment of the Peruvian debt, the undersigned takes the liberty to call the attention of the Committee to the two enclosed documents. The one (No. 1) is the official despatch communicated by the Protectoral Government to the Minister of Finances of the State of North Peru, shortly alter peace had been signed, and before knowing that the Chilian President had refused to ratify it. The other (No. 2) is a letter which General Santa Cruz wrote to the undersigned, at the moment that he was preparing for his voyage to England. These two documents will clearly show to the gentlemen of the Committee what are the desires and what is the policy of the present Chief of the Confederation. " The undersigned takes the liberty of requesting that the Chairman will be pleased to read this note, and the two documents which accompany it, to the gentlemen of the Committee, and takes the advantage of this opportunity to express to him the very distinguished consideration with which he has the honour to subscribe himself, " His most obedient servant, " JOSEPH JOACHIM DE IIORA. " To the Chairman of the Committee of Spanish American Bondholders." " PERU-BOLIVIAN CONFEDERATION. Protectorial Palace in La Paz, Jan. 4, 1833. " TO THE MINISTER OF FINANCE OF THE STATE OF NORTH PERU. . " Sir,—The termination of the war with Chili, and the consolidation of public order, which we already see happily realized in all parts of the Confederation, will greatly iusiA the Protectoral Government in the fulfilment of the pecu niary obligations which it has inherited from the preeedii , g Administrations, and which it has cheerfully made itself liable to, with the firm determination of duly fulfilling them. The home debt, which is ramified into so many subdivisions, all of which are•stamped with the seal of jua tice—the foreign debt, whirls for a space of so many years has done so much injury 10 our credit in the eyes of one of the most generous and illustrious nations in the world, are charges of which the Government has resolved to lighten itself, lia,ing pledg,d its solemn word to follow up th:s great object immediately that the cal s attendant upon the war show d enable it to do so. His Excellency is riot ign..rant that the continuation of our former insolvency would be fatal to us, spreading a great mass of misery amongst our creditors, and exciting against us the bad opiLion of our natives and of foreigners. The recognition and consolidation of these same debts must contribute in an efficacious and direct manner to the increase of the cir culation, the prosperity of our towns, give a stimulus to the exchanges and to mercantile operations, and, above all, to establish our good name in the markets of both hernis- Vieres, upon the basis of probity and rectitude—prin ciples which animate every branch of the Protectoral Ad ministration. " The peace which we happily enjoy is accompanied by the suppression of the considerable expenses which the ne cessities of a just defence demanded ; these economies can tilt be employed in a more moral and honourable manner than in the payment of the different classes of debt which wkigh upon our Treasury. In this mode we shall not only succeed in satisfying those claims founded upon the most incontrovertible rights, but we shall also establish our pubic credit upon a solid basis, which is one of the great objects that his Excellency has proposed. His Excellency is fully convinced that public credit is an element of inse parable nectssity towards the consistency and prosperity of the, grand organization which ought to be given to those States ; and that the public Treasury must be considered as the support and substance of that institution, and to which the best constituted Stites are indebted at the present moment for their riches and respectability. " Penetrated with these principles, and firmly resolved not to recede from the career which has been traced out for the glory and well-being of these countries, his Ex cellency has directed m e , through you, to call the atten tion of your Government to a point of so transcendent an interest, and I hope, from your knowledge and patriotism, that you will efficaciously co-operate towards attaining the proposed end. " His Excellency desires that these matters should be proceeded in with the greatest activity, and you will be pleased in the interim to give.an account of your progrcss through general secretariat un d er my c h arge . " m h ay e God preserve you, &c., t " MANUEL DE LA. CRUZ MENDES." " La Paz, Feb. 20. " My esteemed Consul. General,—Considering that you ' are now about to put yourself en route for your destination, and that the commisiions which . you are about to fulfil are so highly important, I think it proper to insist upon the e xact fulfilment of tiemstructi.onis which I have given t o you. I charge you most especially to expl ain in detail to the bondholders of the Peruvian loan all t h a t you ' can -know regarding my disposition and desires t o f u lfil , i n pre ference to every other object, that engage men t— t h e p l a y s which were about to be realized, had not the Chilians upon two occasions interrupted them, that w hi c h h a d b een d one for the creation of a hank according to the plan of Mr. Baring, presented by General O'Higgins and Mr. John Thomas, and finally assure them, that all my efforts are directed towards that important end, and that the abunnant resources of Peru, the extension which her commerce must necessarily receive f. oin the new laws regardin; it, and the general confidence wldelt is inspired by the new order of things, will afford means more than sufficient for tile pay ment of the dividends, and the progrcs,ive redemption of the principal. " S. SANTA, CRUZ. " Senor Dr. Don Jose Joaquin de Mora." ROMAN RELIC.—Some French labourers, i piercing a railroad tunnel at Rive-de-Gier, near St. Etietn3, recently discovered an antique tomb, evidently intended for two persons, which was scooped in the rock, covered with Roman tiles, and had an oak lining, several inches thick. A CAMEL FIGHT.—About the middle of lb? day, as usual, the sheik rode ahead, and striking his spear in the sand, he had coffee prepared before we came up. While we were sitting round the spear, two of our camels so far Err got the calm dignity of their nature, and their staid quiet habits, as to get into a fight, and one of them finding himself likely to come off srcond best, took to his heels, and the other after bin; ; they were baggage camels, one being charge I with my boxes of provisions Bed housekeeping apparatus, and his movements indicated death to crockery. I will not go into particulars, f or eggs , r i ce, macaron i, an d lamp-ell "cake e bad mixture; and th oug h the race and fight between the vla v loaded cameli were rather ludicrous, the consequence b. no means a pleasant thi ng i n t h e desert.—..Stephens'3 4nocteql of Travel in the Holy Land, I SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL - ____.3.--_ poteedingi French in Northern Africa have, ave suppose, not passed entirely unnoticed even ill , the pre a:4A Ministers of Great Britain. Those proeeCdinss are sufficiently significant of the ulterior designs of Frank ; sufficiently threatening to the commerce of this country, and to our military and maritime dependencies throughout the Mediterranean, as well as to our political ascendancy and dignity among the nations which surround that im portant sea, to rouse the watchfulness at least, if not the active precautions, of any British Government not totally lost to all sense of its most sacred duties. It is difficult. even to glance at this unpleasant subject without resorting to language which it would be desirable to avoid. It is a severe trial of prudence and temper in an Englishman to think, much more to speak, of transactions wbich reduce his country to the humiliating condition - Of a party which has for years been suffering grievous wrorg, and lifs not yet made the slightest movement towards apply- ing a remedy, or towards obtaining reparation. No thing could be more positive than the assurances o f M. de Polignac, at that time Representing the French Government, that the sole object of the expedi tion prepared under Charles X. was to obtain redress from the Algerines for an, outrage offered to France, and to be fairly guaranteed against future insults. These as surances were belied front the outset by each act of our very liberal, soft-spoken, and inoffensive ally. • The pre tc.xt of redress was almost instiintly abandoned, and sys tenialic aggrandisement was prosecuted without intermis sion or remorse, without the faint( st ref, rence to the rights. of Africa, or to those restraints of justice and good faith which ought to have checked the rapacity of con gin:st through the prclituinory engagements entered into by M. Polignac with the Unisters of this country. Under the false profession of redress for an isoicted insult—Te do not say delieiately provoked—the Fiend' Goverinnent rot merely exacted an enormous sum of money from the Dey, but wanto,ly dethroned him, seized his capita!, and has since subdued and garrisoned as its own lea ful demi- Lien the whole of the extensive territory heretofore form- i;ig portion 01 the Tutlish empire, under the title of king dom, or Reg( ncy of Algi , rs ; besides alt;ckine., by block ade or °then% districts which Jay beyond the jurisdic- Lion of that regency. Such has - been the encroaching suirit of the French Government, that we find her military posts and naval stations sprerdieg from Tlemecen on the west to Tunis on the eastward, more than 500 mile', as a bird would fly along.the Mediterranean frontier of Nor thern Africa, and placing the m,reatitile intercourse of Eng land throughout that vast extent of coast at the absolute mercy of the French Government, or its functionaries, mi litary and civil. This is the first time in the history of Christian Europe that the independence of British corn meree has been subjected to such disgraceful bonds. It is the first time that any Foreign Power has ever dared to produce at its own pleasure, unauthorised by treaty with Great Britain—unassented to in any manner by Great Britain-to the detriment of her merchants and the disho nour of her flag, a change so decisive and so mor- tifying in the - foreign relations of a great peop'e. If the encroachments threatened by Russia upon the Turkish empire in the East of Europe be such as to necessitate that forcible interference which England has just, however tardily, commenced for the sake of protecting the maritime equilibrium of the several Powers in communication with the Euxine, by what process of ar gument can it be denied that the wholesale territorial de predations of France, not merely threatened, but already perpetrated, and not perpetrated merely, but still pro gressive and insatiable, do not warrant, nay require, from . - this country, Conservative as she is, and ought to be, of all existing rights, a vigorous and reso!ute interposition in. defence of the equilibrium.of the Mediterranean, glaringly violated by these large French aggressions? A good while ago, the French Commander-in-Chief took possession of Bona—a station of importance to the E.N.E. of Constan tine, and pretty far forwards along the coast, upon the r.)ute to Tunis ; which city, with its capacious harbour, and the great promontory to the eastward of it, there is no difficulty in perceiving that the Government of Louis Philippe has determined, when practicable, to embrace within his African possessions. The space thus seized upon in Africa by France will have for its frontier a line of coast fully equal to the European distance - between the mouths of the Ebro and the Tiber! And this, too, for a " no conquest" undertaking !—a pledge no less positive, no less solemn, and fulfilled with no less con scientious fidelity, than the famous " no patronage" of the Whigs. But it is not enough to have separated points upon the coast of Africa. So Marshal Vallee, to fill in the outl:ne, has denied it necessity to lay hold of a post at the bottom of the Gulf of Stora, duk , wtst of Bons and nei;rly north of Constantine, with which it communicates by a shorter rcute than that between B , nin and the latter city. capture, or rather occupation, of this post, took place . - without a single shot, seeing t at the march was male through . a country where no emmy was to be found, and that the place thus gloriously stormed was utterly without inhabitants—was, in fact, a pile of ancient Ro man or Carthogenian ruins. Tile de , patch. nevertheless, which details this exredition and the results of it, is nearly as long i:s the Duke of Wellington's after the battle o' Waterloo, we need hardly say more boastful and mag niloquent than any English offlox would have ventured to pon, with the fear of ridicule b&ore him. However, if the rei•ord he pompous and inane, the th:ng deSeribed is a solid mischief to this country. It gives to the aggressors a strong post, a good roadstead, convertible without much difficulty into a harbour, and binds and cements more firmly than beFore the maiq; of French usurpaticns. The domi nion thus acquired bc •' our worthy, liberil allies" in North Africa, is toi - her more nor less than a flank attack urea the who!e line of British commerce, from Gibraltar to Corfu. It renders the western section of the Mediterranean an " enemy's camp," as it were, for England, and places Malta, the lonian Islands, and Egypt at once in a state of siege. So much for Whig dexterity and foresight. " Pal merston for ever r —Times. There is not in the history of this country, since the Revolution, so complete a departure from constitutional principles as that evinced by the Tory Lords in the course pursued by them, throughout the Session of 1838. That Session will long be memorable, for the dangerous prece dent which was set of a constant invasion of the functions of the Executive by the Legislature. The insurrection of the Canadas, originating in a strong desire on the part of the French population of the lower province to throw off their dependence on this country, and' to become a se parate nation—a desire which, if realized, would neces sarily lead to the loss of the upper province, and sooner or later to the loss of all the British provinces in America —the contiiluity to the Canadas of a great democracy, in which the Government, it is true, did not countenance the insurrection, but of which a great proportion of the people in the border states took an active part in it, openly organizing armed bands to invade the British territories—impressed all reflecting persons with a conviction that though unusual success had attended the efforts of the military force in crushing the rebellion, yet the still more arduous task remained of restoring order to the Colonies, and guarding against future insurrections, by a delegation of extraordinary powers to a statesman of high character possessed of talents equal to the emergency. When it be came known that the Queen had signified to the Earl of Durham her wishes that he should undertake this high and arduous task, and that, trusting to the fiber allowance which would be made for the peculiar difficulties of the situation, he was prevailed on to accept the trust, the mem bers of both branches of the Legislature seemed to vie with each other in expressing their satisfaction at the arrange- meat. Bat faction soon began to display itself. Before the Earl of Durham had taken his departure from our shores, the leading organ of the Tories d;ty after day circu lated the most malicious reports respecting his proceetEngs. His outfit, even I:is culinary hr r t cm nt s, were made the subject of malicious comment. Endeavours were assidu ously made, both in Parliament, and in the Tory journals, 4i to excite api:rensions the Cimadiatts, and prepossess akinEt their Governor, before his arrival among them. Scarcely had the news . of bis Lordship's arrival in Canada been received in this country, when the war of faction began in the House of Lords. So far from extending a liberal allowance to Lord Durham, the Miry Lords did not even await the arrival of authen tic ace •unts, but assailed him on the faith of all sorts of . rumours. The French Cana iians succeed, din infusing their spirit into a Tory tinioi y. Mr. Roebuck bad the • sati,faction of having all his «i>hes and all his views pro pounded to the House of Lords, with more talented skill, and not less ardour for the success of t he cause d bad h which he was identified, than be could have &p ay e he been suffered to communicate direc tl y with that branch of the Legislature ; and Lords Lyndhu rst and El:enboroogh, l and the other Tory leaders, with a recklessness ng impos will never confonnd new even to faction in this country, se, m ed eag rerencier to ; . out . o each other in paralyzing Lord Durban). and Bible for him to fulfil his mission. We ought the Duke of Wellington with som e of the bold bad men of his party, whose conduct session them for ever as enemies to their country and its best in ought to brand terests ; but even the Duke of Wellington sullied hi s laurels by the part be o ccasionally acted in this shame ful warfare. Common sense proclaims that • at all times the respo of men in authority, but more espe cially in .authority in countries in .which the foundations. of Government have been shaken, should not be diminished by any. a ttempt on the part of the Legislature to diminish its influence by interference or encroachment. The only . safe c ourse is the recognised constitutional one of this coun try of allowing to men in high and responsible trusts the o m n e c n e i endeavouring d t t o o t procure their r m d e i s e m n e i s b s a y l . which full exercise of authority unimpaired and unimpeded , or at s E!9 7 1 ; Ili bet 'sot 50 , vieli' f t he f o 0 , L i s $ .10 i j I 1 -4 ..{ ,ti ' ' 031 :3 I N ~,.y' f , 1. ) THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1838.